Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your coverage of our other gala event during this reading period was somewhat more accurate. However, we do feel that your reporter could have taken the trouble to correctly determine either the name of the dance or the provenience of the troupe that passed through Hilles on Saturday night. The dance is properly referred to as an Interpretative Bubble Dance, not, as you so crudely put it, a "balloon dance." The dance is an old and respected North House ritual; while we are open to dancers from everywhere, to the best of our knowledge none of us is affiliated with...
September 28, 1969. As a high school senior, they told me all about the greatness of Harvard athletics. The first college sporting event was a Harvard crew race. "Athletics for All." Winning traditions. Famous athletes and coaches. I heard it all. But no one ever talked about the Indoor Athletic Building. Today I saw it. The IAB. Surely, someone is kidding me. This must be the annex to Cambridge High and Latin. It is bad enough that this building exists. It is worse that I am inside it. It is appalling that I am here to take something called...
...Green managed to win only two events on the day, the 200 breaststroke--an event in which Harvard is woefully weak--and the meaningless final relay...
...Crimson, however, were not able to leave the weight events quite as gracefully as Northeastern swept the shot put and placed one-two in the 35-lb. weight throw, an event that Harvard swept last year. Colin Ball's throw of 57 ft., 5 1/2 in. marked a personal best but only earned him a third place...
Unfortunately, these promotional details are the most interesting things about this epic live recording. Columbia has packaged these records as an event, a happening of lasting musical significance, but the music represented here does not justify their extravagance. Chick Corea and company pulled out all the stops for their Spring 1977 tour of North America--they even carted along a full brass section and a concert grand piano--and their Boston appearance was sensational. But as so often happens, this performance lost much of its magic in the translation to vinyl...